I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 197: Write a "Long Vacation" to sprinkle water
Shinichiro Higashi, who is still imprisoned in the Kokubunji City Family Court, has no idea what a painful price he will pay in the future for his verbal pleasure.

After giving instructions to Shigeo Nishiguchi, Kitagawa Hide declined his invitation to go to the Kabukicho entertainment shop for a bubble bath after dinner, and hurried to the Sakura-ma Izakaya under the escort of a group of Sumiyoshi-kai followers.

There, Takuya Kimura and Shizuka Kudo were waiting to have dinner and chat with him.

Sitting in the car, Kitagawa Hide's mood improved a lot.

He originally didn't care much about small fry like Shinichiro Tou, but every word the other party said hit his mark, especially the threat to Yumeko at the end.

In the new life after traveling through time, Agatsuma Yumeko is the person that Kitagawa Hide cherishes and loves the most in two lives, and she is also the reverse scale that he cannot allow to be touched.

If Shinichiro Azuma dares to threaten him with Yumeko, Kitagawa Hide will make him stay in prison for the rest of his life!
In this society, you can't get along just by being a nice and friendly person.

As a person, you must have temper when you need to. You must let people know that you have bottom lines and principles, so that they will understand that you are not easy to mess with.

It was already 8 o'clock in the evening when Kitagawa Hide arrived at Sakurasuma Izakaya. Fortunately, he called Kimura Takuya in advance and told him that he would probably be free after 9 o'clock in the evening today. If they couldn't wait, they could make an appointment later.

The Japanese attach great importance to the principle of punctuality to an abnormal degree.

They control time to the second.

Being late or leaving early on a date will make people think that you are a bad person, have no sense of time, and are arrogant. If this happens a few times, you will basically be isolated in your small circle.

Moreover, people who are isolated because of their lateness often do not receive sympathy from others.

How could Kimura Takuya and Kudo Shizuka be willing to give up such a good opportunity? They kept saying that they had been eating late recently and it didn't matter if they waited until ten or even eleven o'clock.

Therefore, Kitagawa Hide arrived at 8 o'clock. The two people who had been there chatting with Yumeko early were overjoyed. They immediately stood up hand in hand and ran to welcome Kitagawa Hide into the private room.

"Congratulations to both of you. Are you planning to make the official announcement soon?" Kitagawa Hide glanced at the two people holding hands, smiled and sat down next to Mengzi, and also held his little wife's soft hand.

In the original history, Kimura Takuya and Kudo Shizuka only officially announced their relationship in 1999, but soon in the following year, Kimura Takuya announced his marriage to Kudo Shizuka at the SMAP concert.

At that time, TBS reported "National Idol Takuya Kimura Getting Married" as state news, and inserted clips of Kimura's press conference announcing his marriage every 15 minutes. The media at the time described it as "only the death of the Emperor can be compared to it."

The two of them did not hide their relationship in front of Kitagawa Hide and Yumeko, which also reflected their trust in Kitagawa Hide and Yumeko.

Because in such an atmosphere, the dinner for four people is more like a gathering between two couples or friends, rather than a business dinner between national actors and national writers.

"I'm sorry to have embarrassed you, Mr. Kitagawa! Shizuka and I don't plan to announce our relationship for the time being. You know, I have quite a few female fans."

Takuya Kimura pulled Shizuka Kudo to sit down and smiled shyly at Kitagawa Hide.

"I understand. Yumeko and I will keep it a secret for you!" Kitagawa Hide and Yumeko smiled at each other. Compared to Kimura and the other man who were actors, they did not need to deliberately hide their identity as a couple.

Kitagawa Hideya has a lot of female fans of his books, but they are also female fans of Yumeko.

As we all know, the girlfriend of the "national teacher" Kitagawa has been assuming the responsibilities of his manager and is a bridge between book fans and Kitagawa Hide. Every time she helps reply to letters and handle book fans' needs, Mengzi is very serious and sincere.

Her virtuous and gentle character has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of Kitagawa fans. Not long ago, Yumeko posted on the Internet under the nickname "Kitagawa Hide's Manager", announcing that she would continue to update the daily life and anecdotes about Kitagawa teacher in the forum in the future. Overnight, her followers increased by nearly 2, making Kitagawa Hide and Jabami Rei envious.

This shows how popular Yumeko is among Kitagawa fans.

But popular stars like Kimura Takuya cannot date openly like this.

Marriage has always been the biggest weapon that causes celebrities to lose popularity and fall from the altar.

Even if Kimura Takuya wants to make an official announcement, I guess the current Johnny's office would not be willing to let him do so.

The four of them chatted happily and ordered food, and then the topic soon turned to the TV drama script "Long Vacation" written by Hidezai Kitagawa.

Upon hearing that Mr. Kitagawa actually found time to write a TV drama script, Kimura Takuya and Kudo Shizuka both opened their mouths wide in shock.

Given Kitagawa Hide's current status in the Japanese literary world, no TV station would be willing to hire him, let alone ask him to write a script, or even just let him be listed as a creative screenwriter.

It is very unworthy for a writer to write entertainment scripts, and it is easy to be criticized by the literary world and readers.

Many well-known writers, who are forced to write scripts for TV stations because of favors they owed in previous years, choose to use fake pen names to conceal their identities.

This shows how much writers hate being associated with the entertainment industry.

Kitagawa Hide didn't care about it at all.

He had previously written and filmed "芥廾", and many of his novels have been adapted into film and television dramas. In addition, this time "Confessions" can be regarded as a movie director's script. In fact, he is not that separate from the entertainment industry.

However, throughout Japanese history, it is difficult to find a case where a top pure literary writer also writes TV scripts. After all, these are two different tracks. Writers do not need to prove their literary talent with a hit TV series. If it fails, it will only lose their status. It is totally unnecessary.

But this bizarre thing really happened to Kitagawa Hide!
"I guess I'll be very busy recently and it'll be hard to spare a lot of time to write a new book, so I just wanted to practice with the TV script."

Kitagawa Hide had no idea for a new book for the time being, and time did not allow him to retreat again to look for new material, so he just wrote "Long Vacation".

I guess I can only think about the new book when I go on vacation to Izu.

As he said this, he asked Yumeko to hand the two prepared scripts to Kimura Takuya and the other person.

"Take a look at these two characters, 'Sena Hidetoshi' and 'Hayama Minami'. I'll ask Iwai-san to figure out how to film them later."

"Yes! Let's watch it now!"

The two of them picked up the script with great trepidation and began to read it immediately.

To be honest, this time, Kimura Takuya really just wanted to apologize to Mr. Kitagawa about the scandal and had no intention of collaborating or anything.

The box office of the movie "No Longer Human" is expected to break 50 billion yen, which will become a milestone in his acting career.

If the historical status of this masterpiece is affected by the fictitious scandal with Izumi Sakai, he will be blamed for it.

Deliberately exposing their relationship in front of Mr. Kitagawa and the other man was also to prove that the rumors were false.

I didn't expect that up to now, the scandal wasn't mentioned at all, but Mr. Kitagawa brought the topic back to work.

When filming "No Longer Human", Takuya Kimura felt the workaholic nature of Mr. Kitagawa.

He had also secretly inquired about Kitagawa Hide's personality and preferences before, and the unanimous comments he got were almost all "hard-working", "approachable" and "workaholic".

Now that he had seen it with his own eyes, he was both in awe and convinced.

As he continued to read the script of "Long Vacation", Takuya Kimura's admiration for Mr. Kitagawa grew deeper and deeper.

I originally thought that Mr. Kitagawa had only written an opening character setting or something, but I didn't expect that the script he gave me was actually a complete story script!

Takuya Kimura remembers that the final chapter of "Confessions" was officially released on July 7th. It's not even twenty days from now, and Mr. Kitagawa has come up with a new work!

This work efficiency is too high.
The story of "Long Vacation" is very simple, it is a typical urban polyamorous sitcom.

The story tells about a 30-year-old out-of-date female model named Ye Shannan, who was tragically absconded with her money by her unscrupulous fiancé on her wedding day.

When she rushed to her fiancé's house in a rage, she only intercepted her fiancé's innocent roommate, Hidetoshi Sena, a 24-year-old unsuccessful pianist.

Penniless and homeless, Konan used threats and bribes to coerce Sena into becoming his new roommate.

Later, Konan's younger brother Shinji Hayama suddenly visited with his girlfriend Momoko, and secretly fell in love with Sena's secret crush Okuzawa Ryoko, making the relationship between everyone even more subtle.

Sena is hesitating between Konan and Ryoko. During this long vacation given by God, a group of men and women are entangled with each other because of love, performing one love story after another that is mixed with joy and sorrow.

The plot of "Long Vacation" can only be described as ordinary and clichéd if it is set 20 or 30 years later. However, at this time, Japanese dramas have not experienced the script cleansing of complicated interpersonal relationships and an explosive opening of escaping marriage. The script immediately makes Kimura Takuya and the other two deeply involved in it and unable to extricate themselves.

In the original history, the heroine Minami Hayama was played by Tomoko Yamaguchi, who just married the famous actor Toshiaki Karasawa in December last year and won the Best Actress Award at the Japan Academy Awards the year before.

Kitagawa Hide took out this script and planned to start filming it together with the Outrageous series as a work project of Kitagawa Entertainment Co., Ltd. this year.

Since he wanted to be the largest investor and Party A, there was no need to leave the ready-made Kudo Shizuka unused and look for the extremely valuable Yamaguchi Tomoko!

After reading the script, Takuya Kimura and Shizuka Kudo immediately realized that this drama would be a hit!
And from what Mr. Kitagawa said, is he planning to use his own company to shoot the film?

In other words, they were actors invited by Mr. Kitagawa to play the male and female lead roles - this was such a huge honor and treatment!
The explosive popularity of "Akira" made the once unknown Kitagawa Entertainment Co., Ltd. a new company that everyone in the entertainment industry aspired to.

This is an entertainment company personally controlled by a well-known Japanese writer. It can be imagined that as long as it produces film and television dramas, the script will inevitably be related to Kitagawa Hide.

Although Kitagawa Hide mainly writes pure literature, the adaptations of his works are very successful.

Everyone wants to hug this thick thigh!
The problem is that no one can hold it, and no one dares to climb up and hold it openly.

"Long Vacation" was actually just a leisure work for Hide Kitagawa, but now that the invitation has come, and the plot and characters in the script are quite consistent with them, in the eyes of Kimura Takuya and others, the other party is simply tailor-making a TV series for them!

The two of them stood up from their seats almost at the same time, took three steps back to the door, bowed deeply to Kitagawa Hide, and said, "Teacher Kitagawa, we are willing to play these two roles. Please rest assured that we will risk our lives to play them well!"

(End of this chapter)